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To: geode00 who wrote (203504)	9/19/2006 2:56:03 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Geode, you obviously don't understand how things work. In fact, you are wrong: <It takes two to tango > To give you an extreme example so you can understand the principle, I have in recent times eaten meat [it is still in my stomach]. The animal I ate did not do any tangoing. I didn't even have to tango. I hired an animal killer and processors to deliver said animal ready for me to eat. It probably never even knew that it might be in trouble or that the purpose of its life was to be food. In other examples, you might have heard of girls being kidnapped and kept in dungeons by males for sexual purposes. The girls did not tango. They were simply forced into being captives. It didn't take two to tango. Just a unilateral decision. Swarms of people have had their lives ended without any idea of tangoing. They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. For example, crowds of children, were nuked in Hiroshima but they had no idea they were doing the tango. It didn't take two to tango. Just one. Saddam has done lots of unilateral tangoing too. As have many people. Armed robbers. Bullying husbands. Vicious women tangoing with infants they were baby-sitting. Random attacks by young males. No invitation to dance. Just a sudden attack, often just for the fun of inflicting fear and pain. Mqurice

To: geode00 who wrote (203504)	9/19/2006 6:26:45 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You guys waste time dreaming about how much fun WWIII AKA the Crusades Redux will be. The rest of us will try and ignore you as much as possible and get on with the God-given task of improving the world. If by "Crusades" you mean, rescuing subjugated peoples from subjugation by the sword, I would argue that this is more consistent with what we know of God's will than otherwise. But, we aren't talking about WWIII, that was the Cold War. Possibly WWIV. I was immensely cheered to learn that there are almost twice as many Christians as Muslims in the world. The much ballyhooed birth rate among Muslims appears to be matched, if not overmatched, by the birth rate among Latin American Catholics, who live, by the grace of God, in a verdant and fertile land with plentiful water and plentiful natural resources, everything necessary for pleasant living. All they lack is education, and even that is something that is passing. Irony upon irony. The Catholic Spaniards who conquered South and Central America and forced the Indians to convert to Catholicism by the sword, by persuasion, and by intermarriage, were fresh from throwing the Muslims out of Spain. It could have been the Muslims who conquered Latin America -- or even the Chinese -- rather than a few hundred Spaniards -- upon such small turns of fate is history made.